Interview with Hidenori Maezawa, Famicom composer

[UglyJoe]

1up has a great three-part interview with Hidenori Maezawa, who helped or composed music on a bunch of Konami's Famicom games.  It's a great read and has insight as to how Konami used to work back in the Famicom days.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172388

(interview links are further down the page)

[L___E___T]

This whole series and the MSX (gasp!) sections are truly something!  Thanks for the tip

[son_ov_hades]

Really cool stuff, he is responsible for some of my favorite video game music.

[satoshi_matrix]

Hearing his reaction to the vertexguy was awesome!

[FAMICOMfag]

REALLY awesome interview.

I LOVE most of Konami NES games soundtracks, while always believing as a musician that they were all made by the same little group of people (at least for most of them), and though I still don't have a precise list of what games he worked on, I can finally put a name on this Konami Sound, and claim that Hidenori Maezawa is my favorite game music composer along side Yuzo Koshiro.

I can bet he made the musics for Mission Impossible (the NES game) for exemple.

also, the compiraison with/without the VRC6 is amazing there : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v9339JUK3U

[satoshi_matrix]

Yuzo Koshiro? Is he the composer of Bare Knuckle/Streets of Rage 2? If, so, yeah, he's awesome.

[Josh]

Hearing his reaction to the vertexguy was awesome!

Yeah, I only watched the video part of the interview, but you're right, watching him listen to that was so cool.  It was my first time hearing it, too, so I got to enjoy it alongside him, in a sense, which added to its greatness.

[FAMICOMfag]

Yuzo Koshiro? Is he the composer of Bare Knuckle/Streets of Rage 2? If, so, yeah, he's awesome.

Yes, also Revenge Of Shinobi for exemple.

I can bet he made the musics for Mission Impossible (the NES game) for exemple.

Well apparently no, he did not

[satoshi_matrix]

Hearing his reaction to the vertexguy was awesome!

Yeah, I only watched the video part of the interview, but you're right, watching him listen to that was so cool.  It was my first time hearing it, too, so I got to enjoy it alongside him, in a sense, which added to its greatness.

First time?! Then check this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5JlGQ5orL8